Energy-efficient drive solutions with SINAMICS drives

Efficient drivetrains are essential for reducing energy consumption and costs. SINAMICS variable frequency drives offer energy-saving functions that provide transparency into your energy consumption, identify opportunities for conservation, and optimize energy usage to improve production efficiency.

Reduce operating costs with energy-efficient drives

Electric drive systems account for 70% of industrial energy consumption, offering massive potential for savings. SINAMICS variable frequency drives deliver versatile energy-saving functions that can reduce operational energy consumption by up to 60% compared to fixed-speed motors, depending on application load profile. Use SinaSave to calculate savings for your specific use case.

To ensure clear benchmarks, international standard IEC 61800‑9‑2 (incorporating EN 50598) defines ecodesign requirements focused on complete system efficiency rather than individual components. This allows manufacturers and users to accurately evaluate system losses and compare product performance for efficient, cost-effective operations.

Disclaimer: All figures are based on internal tests, calculations, and customer reference cases under specific operating conditions. Actual results may vary depending on the individual application, system configuration, and environmental factors.

Optimize costs and boost production efficiency

Discover your energy-saving potential with our wide range of SINAMICS functions.

Low Harmonics drive system

A Low Harmonics drive system compensates up to 100% reactive power and minimizes harmonics in the grid, which improves grid quality and energy efficiency.

Motor efficiency optimization

By optimizing motor efficiency and reducing energy losses of up to 15% (at low speeds with Vector Control operation), you can reduce energy consumption, leading to lower operating costs.

Energy recovery

Recover and reuse braking energy. Feed the excess energy back into the grid using a regenerative circuit, or direct it to other connected drive systems via the DC link coupling.

Pump and fan energy management

An efficient pump or fan management system can enable energy savings of up to 50% (by using a cascading system compared to a usual throttle) during operation while improving performance and reliability.

SINAMICS energy efficiency: Energy-efficiency management

System energy management

Efficient energy management at the system level refers to comprehensively transparent energy consumption and savings in the operation phase of drive systems.

Distributed drive design

The decentralized drive concept enables resource-efficient individual control of the drivetrain near the application process, resulting in cable material cost savings of up to 80% (vs. centralized cabinet drive setup).

Discover how others have improved energy efficiency

Hugo Beck develops packaging machines using Digital Twins

Hugo Beck, Germany

Machine design with Digital Twin

With help from a digital twin approach, Swabian machine builder Hugo Beck developed a way to package products in a more resource-saving way without sacrificing speed and flexibility.

Tethered caps produced by Eckel & Sohn packaging machines.

Eckel & Sohn, Germany

Single-cable servo solution boosts efficiency

SINAMICS S210 servo drives and SIMOTICS motors enable precise, dynamic motion control for Eckel & Sohn’s packaging machines, supporting high-speed production of over 100,000 tethered caps per hour in the near future.

Siemens electric motor factory, Bad Neustadt an der Saale

Siemens, Germany

Reducing energy consumption thanks to digitalization

At the Electric Motor Factory in Bad Neustadt, SINAMICS G120C drives combined with Drivetrain Analyzer Edge provide energy transparency, enabling data-driven optimization and lower operating costs.

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